It's happiest cruising at sedate velocities and is particularly enjoyable topless, when the V-8's dual-exhaust burble can be best appreciated. |
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After the baptism of fire that was the Border, Christy found the pace of policing in Westport a little more sedate. |
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Got the ticket and set out on the road again at a very sedate pace and being very careful with my driving. |
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This does not reflect well on the sedate, calm and collected gentleman that I hallucinated myself to be. |
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As she drew near the room, Morgan slowed her pace to a much more sedate walk. |
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Entering the congestion of the pueblo, the Freeman slowed the team to a more sedate pace and studied her closely. |
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The old rock-and-lava ball had built up a nice ozone shield under which life could evolve at a properly sedate pace. |
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And I spent the last twenty minutes of the exam writing at a fairly sedate rate. |
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Tullow Street may look calm and sedate most mid week days but come the weekends it is an entirely different place. |
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Barnsley batted first and looked composed, if a little sedate, in reaching 25 off 14 tidy overs from Duncan Snell and Rob Flack. |
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Flitting between two worlds, constantly joining up and linking two experiences, this books travels at a sedate pace to its conclusion. |
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The book world is swayed by fads, too, though at much more sedate pace compared to the clothing business. |
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There are a number of orchestras here which also remind us of those days when everything was calmer and more sedate. |
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But how often does one see a youngster moving on a scooterette at a sedate pace, between 42 and 50 kmph? |
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The Op. 71 and Op. 74 were composed in 1793 during a relatively sedate period in Vienna. |
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But all this makes it rather quieter, and more sedate, and a perfect place for stage two. |
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Village cricket isn't the dull, sedate affair for which I had dismissed it. |
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Organizer Richard MacKinnon admits that the crowd is still fairly sedate and lacks diversity. |
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If you haven't figured it yet, this is an elegy to my city's once quiet, sedate, pleasant city roads, a haven for motorists. |
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I would wager that when our defence minister made fun of you, Elsie, he was wearing a boring black or blue suit and a sedate tie. |
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I'm a member of the House of Lords, which is very much more sedate and dignified than the House of Commons. |
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Others prefer a quieter, more sedate setting in Burras Lane or Birdcage Walk. |
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For not having won a title since 1917, the celebration was relatively sedate. |
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She looked out the front window at the street below them, which appeared deceptively quiet and sedate as a cart rolled by innocently. |
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The company has gone for a rather sedate slate grey casing leaving brash corporate silver behind. |
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With ears pricked, eyes were focused just two days later for Minstermen watchers of BBC's less sedate They Think It's All Over. |
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Those selfsame horses were slow and sedate but got things done in their own good time. |
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Pick items that are sedate rather than fleet-footed prestos and floated pieces at mezza voce rather than full-throttle. |
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And he found a sedate, respectable, middle-class partner from the suburbs of London. |
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Some were accompanied by more sedate blokes, dressed in their finest old jeans with their shirt tails hanging out. |
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Malati, a sedate old female, was a placid soul, unflappable even in a crisis. |
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Madeira may have a sedate image but it does have dramatic scenery and spectacular blooms. |
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The worst that befell me on my stag weekend, held in the sedate surrounds of a barge boat, was a hard-boiled egg eating competition. |
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Laughing gas is used by doctors and dentists as an anaesthetic or analgesic to numb pain, sedate and allay anxiety. |
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More sedate but nonetheless oozing French bohemian cool are overcoats with ruched hemlines in soft corduroy by Lilith. |
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Even if they won't do a house call, they might be able to give you something to sedate her with before the trip to the office. |
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I sighed, then clambered to my feet at a more sedate pace and gathered up my stuff. |
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The equipment can also be used to sedate nervous and claustrophobic adults. |
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The opening line is humorous, touching,and declamatory at one and the same time, its pentameter rhythm sedate and arresting. |
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The colour balance of the look is tasteful and sedate, so grey, brown, fawn or navy tailoring works best. |
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Within 10 minutes we were idling towards a pod of six whales making their sedate way through the wide sweep of the sound opposite the lodge. |
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Unfortunately, what was once irascibly ribald years ago is now so sedate as to be comatose. |
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Everything is loud, flashy and lacking depth in the city, more sedate and interesting in the countryside. |
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Older films are edited at a more sedate pace and they don't always have the drive and dynamism of modern cinema. |
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These dystopias of capitalism are squeezing out communities' hope as they sedate them with the best salaries around. |
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The only downside is that driving slowly is difficult and finding a gear to settle into sedate mode is a challenge. |
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How better to brighten up a sedate outfit, or add a dash of colour to an otherwise dreary day? |
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Here, Ramirez reined in his horse and they walked forward at a sedate trot. |
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If you'd prefer a quiet drink and a paperback, you might want to consider a more sedate ship. |
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I'd intended to be mature and sedate and demure and just wistfully watch the young guests from afar. |
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A sedate scattering of planters, wicker chairs and Balinese chests evokes mansions of old. |
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I can't bump any more but I can manage a sedate wiggle providing it doesn't go on too long. |
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For those who like a more sedate evening minus the cowboy whoops and lariats, Jockey Club may be the best place to be in. |
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Combined with that, we give a combination of a valium-type drug and an intravenous anaesthetic agent to sedate you during the process. |
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Unless the cat is already moribund, the veterinarian will need to lightly sedate or anesthetize the patient. |
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The mash becomes just about worn, and we are delivered into a more sedate restatement of the opening acoustic strum. |
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Coy admissions of a relationship between the parties lent a breath of intrigue to the otherwise sedate election campaign. |
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Things were sort of sedate after that and the conversation lulled, then dropped off entirely. |
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Future gains are likely to be more sedate although the shares have their attractions for those seeking some stability. |
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He was stared at a bit rudely, but not spoken to by the sedate patricians of blue-blooded society who were present. |
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Passing over the ship's holds I look down upon sedate shoals of crescent-tailed bigeyes, their reflective tapetums looking like silver cataracts. |
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And the azalea, rare rhododendrons, oak, holly, birch and sycamore have altered only in the context of nature's sedate march. |
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Coming from the comparatively sedate Toronto coffeehouse scene, the brothers were dropped into what must have seemed like a bacchanal. |
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After the intense activity of Monday, Tuesday was rather more sedate. |
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Lucas followed behind at a more sedate pace, and neither looked happy. |
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Where citrus County felt like a coiled spring, the pace of A Million Heavens is sedate, diffused among a dozen or so characters. |
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John had an enormous beer gut, probably due to his sedate lifestyle, and the buttons on his shirt were always open revealing a glimpse of dark stomach hair. |
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He followed her at a more sedate pace that was faster than it seemed. |
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Doctors will face up to five years in jail under a plan to stop anti-psychotic drugs being used as a potentially fatal chemical cosh to sedate dementia patients. |
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I followed it down at a more sedate pace to the jeers of my mates. |
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The Twomblys, which might appear settled in more sedate company, here writhe and twitch. |
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The normally sedate hamlet now resembles the set of Robocop. |
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Smith's case had brought unusual drama to the normally sedate high court. |
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The former is a flamboyant actor, the latter a tweedily sedate director. |
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I don't quite understand how a city can be so sedate and frenetic at the same time, but somehow Los Angeles manages it. |
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Police and a vet were called, but the distressed cow bolted across greens and fairways and out of reach of pursuers trying to corner it in order to sedate it. |
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Here a fleet of sedate houseboats lies moored in permanent residence. |
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Oh, how far the East Wing has come from the sedate days of oleg Cassini and Arnold Scaasi! |
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For the more sedate, there was ten pin bowling and splat the rat. |
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Upstairs at Comptons was closed so after quaffing a quick pint on the stairs, the Townswomen's Guild retired to the more sedate surrounds of The Yard's loft bar. |
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Thus, after just a handful of bars of ritornello, delivered at a breakneck speed, the soloist enters at, and insists upon, a much more sedate and measured tempo. |
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Perth's suburbs and streets have English names and gardens full of pruned roses, and retirees in starched white play sedate games of lawn bowls in quiet suburbs. |
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Unlike the animals in the zoo, who lead a sedate life, animals in the Shanghai Circus have to earn their daily bread through hard training and good performances. |
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Maddeningly, her beautiful new State Ballroom, designed for the sedate line dances of a century earlier, was far too narrow for crinolines and whirling couples. |
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Most of the 200 or so runs across the two mountains are far more sedate, and Whistler is even establishing a reputation as a decent place to learn to ski. |
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Much like draining a bathtub, going down in a lock is fairly sedate. |
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The world of biblical interpretation is a calm and sedate world. |
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Being a sedate and sombre brunette could get boring eventually. |
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In Britain, political activists have taken a rather more sedate approach. |
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Instead, its biggest sellers are PVC trousers with matching tops, bustiers and corsets that can be worn out clubbing as well as underneath more sedate outfits. |
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More sedate visitors will enjoy poring over family treasures, such as old photos and maps, watching gauchos at work, or reading a book under the austral summer's midnight sun. |
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But unlike chill-out discs that serve mainly as sedate background ambience, Lost Horizons is a trip's prelude that opens the gates to enchantment. |
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At the basic level Scarlett is a tempestuous heroine out of a bodice-ripping historical novel, a focus for fantasy projection on the part of far more sedate women. |
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But, what was intended as an evening of educating the public seemed to result in a call for mobilisation rather than sedate acceptance of situation. |
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The neighborhood was sedate and quiet as all the inhabitants were at work. |
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Be you the sedate, white tie and waltz type or the rock-around-the-clock hep sort or something in between, there is something to suit you at the Windsor. |
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Thus far into the interview the pace has been sedate, almost jovial. |
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Give us sedate laps of honour rather than frantic, relieved pitch invasions any day. |
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In this performance, Petrenko led a spirited gigue and a sedate, verging on sensuous, minuet. |
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The first Mrs. Kirke was, I judge, a sedate pastoress, who looked well after her household and her husband's flock. |
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Roller coasters range in scariness from the sedate to the downright terrifying. |
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So did some high-profile board members, who grated on the nerves of the sedate establishmentarians. |
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But the unpredictable performer has followed up the pop release with a much more sedate release of pieces by the likes of Beethoven and Brahms. |
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Even the after-party at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel resembled a sedate viewing session at a funeral parlor. |
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Ann Black and friends from Co Armagh, nd friends magh, dressed in elegant Edwardian costumery, added a splash of colour to the sedate atmosphere of the ribboncutting ceremony. |
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Its childishly simple rules and its image as a sedate pastime for elderly gentlemen put checkers deep in the shadow of chess, it smore prestigious rival. |
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Henry travelled less than previous kings, seeking a tranquil, more sedate life and staying at each of his palaces for prolonged periods before moving on. |
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After that boneshaker, I was back in the hands of the local tourist authority guide, who suggested a far more sedate ride out to look at the flowers and birds. |
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In the artist's style, what might have been a sedate tabletop scene is enlivened by altercating primates, themselves joined by hostile feline intruders. |
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